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Fort Monmouth: The U.S. Army's House of Magic

Fort Monmouth: The U.S. Army's House of Magic

Author: Melissa Ziobro
ISBN: 9781955041225
Format: Paperback
$57.99

From celebrity homing pigeons to the radars that detected the incoming Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor to early...  Read More >>

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement...

Author: Macon Fry
ISBN: 9781496852120
Format: Paperback
$37.40

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Perceptions of Battle: George Washington’s Victory at Monmouth

Perceptions of Battle: George Washington’s Victory at...

Author: Jeff Dacus
ISBN: 9781955041270
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A towering figure on a white horse, George Washington led his Continental Army to victory over the British Army...  Read More >>

The Abortionist of Howard Street: Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York

The Abortionist of Howard Street: Medicine and Crime...

Author: R.E. Fulton
ISBN: 9781501774829
Format: Hardback
$76.43

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The Battle of Dranesville: Early War in Northern Virginia, December 1861

The Battle of Dranesville: Early War in Northern Virginia,...

Author: Ryan Quint
ISBN: 9781611216936
Format: Hardback
$90.00

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Yale and Slavery: A History

Yale and Slavery: A History

Author: David W. Blight ,  Yale and Slavery Research Project
ISBN: 9780300273847
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University  Read More >>

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

Author: Theresa McCulla
ISBN: 9780226833828
Format: Paperback
$53.95

A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City,...  Read More >>

Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami

Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami

Author: Eric Driggs ,  Vince Houghton
ISBN: 9781541774575
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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The University of South Carolina Trivia Book

The University of South Carolina Trivia Book

Author: Elizabeth Cassidy West
ISBN: 9781493074495
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The University of South Carolina Trivia Book features a wealth of new and recent facts, with over 700 questions...  Read More >>

The Princeton University Trivia Book

The Princeton University Trivia Book

Author: Helene van Rossum ,  Daniel J. Linke
ISBN: 9781493074303
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The quintessential source of information about Princeton, one of the world's most respected universities, with more...  Read More >>

The University of Central Florida Trivia Book

The University of Central Florida Trivia Book

Author: Mary A. Rubin
ISBN: 9781493075515
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The quintessential source of information about the University of Central Florida, one of the nation's largest and...  Read More >>

The Washington Apple Volume 7: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture

The Washington Apple Volume 7: Orchards and the Development...

Author: Amanda L. Van Lanen
ISBN: 9780806193984
Format: Paperback
$71.15

How did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda...  Read More >>

Folklore of Lake Erie

Folklore of Lake Erie

Author: Judith S. Neulander
ISBN: 9780253069788
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Welcome to a very different Lake Erie-where ghost ships sail silently, a Black Dog brings doom to sailors who see...  Read More >>

A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming...

Author: Mark E Miller
ISBN: 9781954861169
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A beautifully written memoir about coming of age on a large Wyoming ranch in the second half of the twentieth century...  Read More >>

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Richard A. Stone ,  James W. Baker
ISBN: 9781493084364
Format: Hardback
$55.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252045707
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Folklore of Lake Erie

Folklore of Lake Erie

Author: Judith S. Neulander
ISBN: 9780253069771
Format: Hardback
$154.99

Welcome to a very different Lake Erie-where ghost ships sail silently, a Black Dog brings doom to sailors who see...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Wetland Diaries: Ranger Life and Rewilding on Wicken Fen

Wetland Diaries: Ranger Life and Rewilding on Wicken...

Author: Ajay Tegala
ISBN: 9781803993485
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A ranger’s seasonal account of managing wild animals to revive a lost landscape at the National Trust's oldest nature...  Read More >>

Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee

Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student...

Author: Katherine J. Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780820366456
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and...  Read More >>

Old Line Plate: Readers' Collection

Old Line Plate: Readers' Collection

Author: Kara Mae Harris
ISBN: 9798988261919
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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